The Acer Swift 3 is a budget laptop with an impressive all-metal design, but it skimps on some features you might find important.

Specs at a glance: Acer Swift 3 SF314-42, as tested; OS: Windows 10 Home: CPU: 2.0GHz 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 4700U (4.1GHz boost) RAM: 8GB LPDDR4 (not upgradable) GPU: AMD Radeon 7 core: SSD: Samsung ...

Still, I think Acer's Swift 3 is one of the best deals on the market right now. For $1,000 you get a laptop that's powerful enough for most people, has phenomenal battery life, a good screen, and ...

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Acer outfitted the Swift 3 a full-sized deck with a dedicated numeric keypad. The keys have an ample 1.3mm travel that fends off accidental keystrokes fairly well and has good tactility.

Regardless, Acer was still able to set up the Swift 3 with a healthy configuration, including an 8th Gen Intel Quad-Core processor, 8GB of DDR4 memory, a 1TB hard drive and Intel's Optane memory ...

The Acer Swift 3 is the first laptop I’ve tested that features an AMD Renoir processor featuring an AMD Ryzen 4000 series processor with Zen 2 CPU cores and Radeon Vega graphics.

Acer offers the Swift 3 with just one display option: A glossy 14-inch Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 or 157 PPI) screen. It’s sharp enough for most users, and as an IPS panel, it promises good viewing ...

Acer ships the Swift 3 with a modest 55 watt-hour battery. This is not a large battery for a 16-inch laptop with a processor slightly more power hungry than most alternatives, and it shows.

The Swift 3 OLED runs on 12th-gen Intel Core H-series chips with Iris Xe integrated graphics, PCIe Gen 4 SSDs and as much as 16GB of LPDDR5 memory. It ships to the US this July starting at $900.